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The problem with counterculture is that it encourages people to uncritically accept that mainstream culture is horrible (e.g. boring, White, materialist, racist
by formulaT 11y ago
The problem with counterculture is that it encourages people to uncritically accept that mainstream culture is horrible (e.g. boring, White, materialist, racist/sexist/homophobic) and must be rejected.
While everyone feels this way on some issues, counterculture encourages people to turn a dissatisfaction with some aspects of mainstream culture into a total rejection of it. And it does so not by rational argument, but by exploiting people's desire to feel special and enlightened.
- defen 11y agoSounds like secular gnosticism.
- mercer 11y agoIn my opinion aligning yourself too much with a particular 'counterculture' should be the domain of teenagers and those in their early-twenties. And that's fine: we're social creatures and we often need some help breaking out of the paradigms we grew up with. But at some point one should learn to forge their own path, separate from any package of beliefs that comes with any 'culture'.